March 1‒7 Prayer for Israel

Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and Israel Air Forces (IAF)

Military service is mandatory in Israel for both male and female citizens over 18. Manning checkpoints on borders between Israeli and Palestinian areas are among the typical military functions, and these are often the sites of violent terror attacks. 

God, thank You for the men and women in Israel’s armed forces. Please protect them as they guard the people and Land of Israel. Give them courage and discernment in carrying out their duties. From high-ranking officers to the newly enlisted, heighten their powers of observation and perceptiveness to detect advancing threats against Israel and her people. Provide them with timely and accurate intelligence to thwart all enemy plans against them. Give them the wisdom to respond appropriately to threats and attacks. May the intensity of their work create a hunger to know You and Your peace offered through Messiah.

March 8‒14 Prayer for Israel

Immigrants (Olim)

Many Jewish people around the world have a burning desire to “make aliyah,” or immigrate to Israel. Doing so is a great joy, but it also comes with challenges. Once in Israel, immigrants – called olim (Oh-LEEM) – must learn the language, find work, form new relationships and integrate into Israeli society. Many struggle for years to assimilate while some never fully do.

Father, it is exciting to see You bringing about what Your Word foretold: You are gathering Your people from the four corners of the earth back to Israel. Please help these immigrants rise above whatever challenges they face in the Land that is both home and foreign to them. Help them learn the language and the skills they need to acquire sufficient employment. Provide for those who have fallen into poverty because they have not yet been able to integrate adequately. Lord, as You have drawn Your people back to Israel, bring them also to Messiah Yeshua (Jesus). 

March 15‒21 Prayer for Israel

Purim

Purim (PURR-ihm) is the most festive holiday on the Jewish calendar. It commemorates God saving the Jewish people from annihilation at a time when they lived under Persian rule. He elevated Esther, a Jewish maiden, to the position of queen “for such a time as this” (Esther 4:14). 

Father, thank You for the many times You have delivered Your people from destruction. Thank You for the Purim story and how it displays that Your mighty hand intervenes in the lives of Your people. Continue to protect Israel from her enemies today. While Purim is a time of celebration, may its spiritual meaning rise above the festivities so that all will contemplate how powerful, faithful and true You are. In these Last Days, use the Purim story to move people toward You, “for such a time as this.”

March 22‒28 Prayer for Israel

Believers in Israel

Believers in Yeshua make up about 2 percent of Israel’s population.

Father, thank You for the Body of Messiah in Israel. Though there are few, You indwell each one. Encourage these Believers and enlarge their faith. Strengthen them in Your Word. Heighten their hunger to study and “rightly divide” Your Word (2 Timothy 2:15). Help them to reach maturity in prayer, worship and wisdom. Give them favor in the Land. We ask that You will shine through them as an irresistible light among their neighbors, co-workers and friends, drawing all to the truth of Yeshua. 

March 29‒31 Prayer for Israel

Israel to come to know the Messiah

About half of Israel’s Jewish population is religious, observing Jewish life to varying degrees along a spectrum ranging from Modern Orthodoxy to Ultra-Orthodoxy.

Lord, God of Israel, the religious Jewish people in Your Land want to know You. As Romans 10:2 tells us, they have a zeal for You, but they lack knowledge because they don’t know Yeshua. Please open their eyes to see the Messiah that You promised to them in the Hebrew Scriptures. Show them Yeshua’s fulfillment of the Messianic prophecies contained in the Scriptures. Let their minds be unable to escape these truths, and draw them to learn more. Remove the veil from over their eyes, and create in them a burning curiosity about Jesus. Bring Believers into their lives who will share the Good News and teach them what their own Scriptures say about Yeshua. Open their hearts to Him that they may come to believe. 

You can imagine the disciples’ confusion – their glances around the room and the unspoken questions in their eyes.

“What is He doing?”

Yeshua (Jesus) had taken off His outer garment and wrapped a towel around His waist. He filled a basin with water, knelt before His disciples – and began washing their feet.

How could this be? This was servants’ work. Yet here was their Rabbi, the Messiah of God, humbling Himself to serve them in one of the lowliest ways.

After He finished, He explained many things, as recorded in John 13‒14:

• He came as an example
• He is the way, the truth and the life
• No one comes to the Father except through Him
• Whatever we ask in His name, He will do – for God’s glory
• If we love Him, we will keep His commandments
• Because He lives, we will live also
• He will send us the Helper
• The Helper will teach us and be with us forever
• Yeshua gives us His extraordinary peace

Jesus spoke these things to His disciples in the Upper Room on the night before He died for us. The Upper Room is just one of many inspiring sites you’ll visit when you join us on the:

Jewish Voice Ministries Celebrate Israel 2019 Tour | May 27‒June 6, 2019

“After the onsite teaching and Scripture readings on location during the Israel tour, you experience the Bible in a deeper, more profound way. You read it with a different perspective having been there. Israel intensifies the Word for you.”

―Pam

February 1‒7 Prayer for Israel

Believers in Israel

Of Israel’s 8.5 million people, only about 2 percent are Believers in Yeshua (Jesus). Approximately 20,000 of those are Messianic Jews (Jewish Believers in Yeshua). Gentile Believers in Israel are frequently viewed there as dangerous missionaries, while Messianic Jews are often believed to have betrayed their Jewish faith. It can be challenging.

Lord, please strengthen the Body of Messiah in Israel. Encourage these Believers – both Messianic and Gentile – and help them to stand firm in their faith. Please build up the bonds of unity between them and reinforce their fellowship with each other. Draw them deeper into the Scriptures so they may increase in knowledge and understanding of Your Word. May they have great joy that radiates Your glory and provokes Jewish people to jealousy (Romans 11:11). 

Please instill ministry leaders with vision and wisdom for serving the Body of Messiah and reaching out to Israelis who need to know Yeshua. 

February 8‒14 Prayer for Israel

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Father, Your Word says we are to pray for all who are in authority that we may live peaceful and quiet lives (1 Timothy 2:1‒2). We bring Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu before You, Lord, and ask that You give him great wisdom to lead and protect Israel. Stir him to call upon You for guidance, and reveal Yeshua to him. Please strengthen him with integrity, and guard against anything that would interfere with his responsibilities to govern Israel well. Surround him with wise counsel, giving him inspiration, innovation and favor to accomplish Your purposes in the defense and prosperity of the State of Israel. 

February 15‒21 Prayer for Israel

Victims of Terror – recent and past

Lord, how many lives have been shattered by terrorism in Israel? You know each one, and we lift them up to You. While the families of terrorists receive monthly payments to honor their brutal acts of hatred, victims and families must cope with the traumatic stress and fear that often pervades the lives of those subjected to such violence. 

Please comfort and strengthen those who have been attacked. Heal their bodies, minds and hearts. Help them to not be consumed by fear, but bring them to the Good News that Yeshua is the Messiah and that You love them dearly. 

Please also comfort those who have lost loved ones, and bring Your peace to Jerusalem and all Israel.

February 22‒28 Prayer for Israel

Israel to come to know the Messiah

Fifty percent of Israel’s Jewish people consider themselves secular Jewish. Forty percent of those – though they may culturally practice some Jewish observances – say they don’t believe in God.

Yeshua, how You wept over Your people in Jerusalem, whom You longed to gather to Yourself as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings (Luke 13:34). We ask that You will awaken a hunger for You among Israel’s secular Jewish people. Open their eyes to see irrefutable evidence of Your existence, holiness and love. 

Please reveal the truth to those who believe in some errant form of You. And to those who think You are distant, show Yourself as the One who longs for intimate fellowship with His people. May Your goodness and truth be inescapable to them. 

Yeshua, thank You for humbling Yourself in the manger and on the tree. Draw near again to open the hearts of Israel’s secular Jews who have no interest in the Father. Stir up their hearts to see and receive You.